Brassiere slip



Sept. 3, 1946. A. NOVIQCK BRASSIERE SLIP Filed March 20, 1944 INVENTOR.

56 ABE NOV/CK Patented Sept. 3, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BRASSIERE; SLIP- Abe- Novick, South Orange, N. J'., assignoli. to Lewel Manufacturing Co. Inc., Newark, N.. .I., a acorporation of New Jersey Application March. 20, 1944,, Serial No. 527,203

This invention relates to a brassire slip, i. e. a garment whose upper portion is a brassiere for molding. and supporting. the breasts and whose lower portion is a half-slip which depends. from brassiere.

Heretof'ore in one type of brassiere slip, the half-slip was secured to the entire lower edge of the brassiere. With such construction the half-'. slip interfered with the. normal breast-supporting function of the brassiere by pulling the breasts down. In addition, closing of the tight bust encircling" brassiere band gathered the loose ma terial of the half-slip at the rear of the garment and thus disturbed the smooth fit of dresses on a wearers back.

Another type of brassiere slip minimized these defects by completely eliminating the connection between the brassiere and half-slip at the rear of the garment. However, with this construction the'back of the brassiere rode up on the wearer, allowing the breasts to drop.

It is, accordingly, an object of the present in-' vention to provide an improved brassire slip which incorporates the desirable features of the above types of brassiere slips but does not have their drawbacks.

Mor specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a brassiere slip which anchors the rear of the brassiere on the half-slip without pulling the brassire down or gathering the slip at the rear of the garment.

Another object of the invention is to provide a brassiere slip in which the bust encircling brassire band can be adjusted to difi'erent girths without affecting the fit ofthe half slip.

Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described and of which the scope of application will be indicated in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, in which is shown one of the various possible embodimentsof this invention Figs. 1 and2 are near and front views, respec tively, of my improved brassiere slip on a wearer; and

Fig, 3. is a rear view of the upper half of the garment, with the back of the half-slip partly broken away.

Referring now to the drawing, l denotes a brassiere slip embodying my invention and comprising a brassiere top l2 and half-slip l4.

6 Glaims.

i The brassiere top i2 includes. a. pair of fabric.- panels l6 each of, which forms the bottom half of a breast cup-whose top half comprises another fabric panel 18. The, abutting lateral edges of the two top panels: H3 at the front center of the garment are stitched to each other, the lateral edges of said panels at the side of the garment being .sewed to rearwardly extending tapering fabric panels which. are adapted to go around the wearers back. The edges of the tapering panels to which the top panels are secured depend below the bottom edges of said top panels.

The brassiere top also includes a pair-of flexible, circumferentially elastic, vertically inelastic panels 22 secured to the lower edges of the bottom panels 16 and also to the portions of the lower edges of the top panels 18 which extend laterally beyond the bottom panels. [-5. The elastic panels 22 are stitched to each other at the front center of the brassire and their bottom edges are located at approximately the same level as the bottom edges. of the tapering; panels 20., the side edges of said elastic panels being sewed to the dependinglateral edges of said tapering panels.

The free nd of one of the tapering panels 25! is connected by a flexible longitudinally elastic. tape 23 to a fabric strip 24. having a linearly arranged series of eyelets, 26 provided thereon. The free end of the opposite tapering panel is connected by a flexible longitudinally elastic tape 2.8 to a rigid hook 30 which can be inserted in any one of the; eyelets 26 toadjust; the girth and ti h ness of the brassiere 1-2, as is well known to the art.

Conventional shoulder str ps 3 ar lso p ovided.

The half-slip: l4 includes. a front fabric panel 34 whose upper edge is sewed to bottom edges of the elastic panels 22 The slip also includes a rear fabric panel 36. stitched to the front panel along the sides of the garment. The rear panel, however, is considerably shorter than the front panel and has sewed to its top edge a flexible circumferentially elastic, vertically inelastic panel 38, the combined height. of the, two rear panels 3.6, 3-8 being substantially equal to that of the front panel 34;.

Thetop portion of the. front panel is symmetrie cally tapered on both sides, as at til, to reduce a the width of its upper edge to a length not greater than the distance between the apices of the breast cups. The spaces left by these tapered edges are filled with inserts each comprising a triangular, flexible, circumferentially elastic, vertically inelastic panel whose lower apex is approximately coincident with the upper edge of the rear fabric panel 36. The slanting edges of the triangular panels are stitched to the tapered edges of the front fabric panel and the vertical edges of the triangular panels are sewed to the lateral edges of the rear elastic panel 38 so as to constitute an effective extension thereof. In addition, the overlapping portions of the upper edges of the triangular panels 42 and lower edges of the elastic panels 22 are sewed together with circumferentially expansible stitching 44.

This combination of contiguous attached elastic panels 22, 38 and 42 provide a body encircling band at approximately the waist of the wearer and below the breast supporting portions of the brassiere which is circumferentially elastic and which will, therefore, cling to the body of the wearer and serve as a fixed belt to which the back of the brassire can be anchored. This band also serves to carry the weight of th half-slip and permits the brassiere to function unimpededly.

One of the ends of the bust encircling brassiere band, e. g. the fabric strip 24 having the eyelets 26, is connected to the upper edge of the rear elastic panel 38 by an anchoring strip 44 of material which is vertically resilient. For this purpose, the strip 44 may be made out of the same material as that of the elastic panels 22, 38 and 42 but turned 90. However, I prefer to have the strip not quite as resilient as said elastic panels and therefore out said strip on the bias. Said strip 44 serves to resiliently anchor the rear of the brassire to the slip and thus inhibit the normal tendency of the brassier to hike up at the rear.

It will be noted that, since one end of the bust encircling brassire band is unconnected to the half-slip, said band may be tightened on a wearer without gathering the half-slip, even though the elastic pane1 38 should be eliminated. In addition, because almost the entire rear edge of the brassiere is unconnected to the half-slip, the back of the half-slip does not tend to pull the breasts down. This reduced pull is also present at the front of the half-slip where, due to the narrow upper edge of the half-slip panel 34 and circumferentially elastic panels 22, the pull of the front of the half-slip is concentrated between the breasts, where it will least affect the uplifting action of the brassiere top.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which the several objects of this invention are achieved, and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiment above set forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawing is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A brassiere slip comprising a breast molding and supporting brassiere top and a half-slip, said brassiere top including a bust encircling brassiere band having two ends provided with means for mutual detachable attachment at the rear of a wearer, the upper portion of the front of the halfslip being tapered to such an extent that the upper edge thereof is no longer than the distance between the apices of the brassiere breast cups, the tapered edge being connected across the back of the half-slip by a circumferentially resilient rear panel, a circumferentially resilient panel interconnecting the lower edge of the front of the brassiere top and the narrow upper edge of the front of the half slip and overlapping the circumferentially resilient rear panel to form a circumferentially resilient, waist encircling band, and a vertically elastic strip of material permanently interconnecting one of said brassiere band ends with the upper edge of the rear circumferentially resilient panel, the other of said ends being unconnected to said panel.

2. A brassiere slip comprising a breast molding and supporting brassiere top and a half-slip, said brassiere top including a bust encircling brassire band having two ends provided with means for mutual detachable attachment at the rear of a wearer, the upper portion of the front of the half-slip being tapered to such an extent that the upper edge thereof is no longer than the distance between the apices of the brassire breast cups, the tapered edges being connected across the back of the half-slip by a circumferentially resilient rear panel, and a circum ferentially resilient panel interconnecting the lower edge of the front of the brassiere top and the narrow upper edge of the front of the halfslip and overlapping the circumferentially resilient rear panel to form a circumferentially resilient, waist encircling band.

3. A brassiere slip comprising a breast molding and supporting brassiere top and a half-slip, said brassire top including a bust encircling brassiere band having two ends provided with means for mutual detachable attachment at the rear of a wearer, said half-slip including a circumferentially resilient panel at the rear thereof whose upper edge is at approximately the same level as the upper edge of the front of the half-slip, and a circumferentially resilient panel interconnecting the lower edge of the front of the brassiere top and the upper edge of the front of the half-slip, said panels being contiguously disposed to form a circumferentially resilient, waist encircling band.

4. A brassire slip comprising a breast molding and supporting brassire top and a half-slip, said brassire' top including a bust encircling brassiere band having two ends provided with means for mutual detachable attachment at the rear of a wearer, a circumferentially resilient, waist encircling band around the upper edge of the half-slip which interconnects said brassiere top and half-slip only at the front of the brassire slip and is adapted to cling to the wearer, and a strip of material interconnecting said bust encircling band adjacent said ends with the'rear of said circumferentially resilient band.

5. A brassiere slip as set forth in claim 4 wherein the strip of interconnecting material is vertically elastic.

6. A brassiere slip as set forth in claim 4 wherein the strip of interconnecting material is vertically elastic and is permanently attached to the bust encircling band and to the resilient band.

ABE NOVICK. 

